It has arrived! I didn't notice the tiny size 3 font at the bottom of the email.

Hello I subscribed for the "be a subscriber by August 18th" promotion but did not receive my 500 bonus cartel coins. I placed a ticket and the customer service rep suggested I post here: I am sorry to hear that you did not receive the bonus cartel coins. Unfortunately Customer Support cannot verify your eligibility to this promotional offer. I advise you to write a post about it on the forum and our Community Manager team will check it and get back to you. Can a community manger have a look and see if they can straighten this out? I received an email from Star Wars with the promotion listed so I'm guessing I must qualify. Thanks for the help.

80 hours a week plus? LOL That's like 2 full time jobs worth of playing SWTOR dude, anyone doing that has some serious problems.

There's more scarecrows in your argument than a Saskatchewan wheat field. The very fact that I can post in this forum is PROOF that I will spend money on this game if I feel like I will get good value for the money spent. I subscribed for a year, spent money on CC's for unlocks, bought the RoTH Cartel expansion, etc etc. So I have spent money and will continue to do so in the future, but not in regular or large sums. I follow the "take what you want and pay for it" philosophy, but Bioware only offers a full price fee for a service I can't use much. It's sub or G T F O, so I G T F O. I just can't stomach a $15 a month subscription for a game I play for 12 hours a month. It doesn't cross that invisible threshold where I feel good about spending the money. And since there's no other option, I don't subscribe, so Bioware doesn't get $15 a month from me, or $10, it's probably less than $3 per month at most. Since I'm a Canuck it costs me around $200 a year to subscribe, this is the list I see of items going up in a puff of smoke whenever I think about subbing: 10 nights to the movies at $20 a piece, or 20 tanks of gas for my XR650L, or a brand new tires chain and sprocket for said motorcycle, or gas for my car to drive 1200km round trip to see my family, or 30 - 40 pay per view movies, or enough reloading components to cover my Cowboy Action Shooting needs for a full year, or that Model 91/30 Mosin Nagant I always wanted but could never justify buying. So that's what I see when I tally up the expenses for 1 year of SWTOR subscription, which makes me a little sick to my stomach. It feels like I'm throwing 50 cents a day down the storm drain every day I can't play. In all honesty some of you are correct, when you compare a subscription to what I spend on coffee a month it's very cheap, but that's my limitation that I can't seem to cross. I don't know why, maybe it's 35 years of people telling me video games are a waste of time and money taking effect on my psyche? I know for sure I'm not the only one though. So what does this mean? It means there's a large untapped market out there of people just like me, who won't subscribe to their very limited pigeon hole single option for subscription. If Bioware offered more options, more people would spend money here, which would mean more money for expansions and fixes. Cell phone companies do it, cable companies do it, heck even swimming pools have punch cards!

I bought the $40 package so I'm technically a sub for now. The package was a good deal so I went for it.

I would spend more money on this game if it had a more alternatives to the old subscription model. I'm sure there are a lot of older players like myself who have the cash but don't have a lot of time to spare, so a $15 per month subscription plan has low value per dollar spent. For example, I might only get 3 hours a week play time, so $15 buys me 12 hrs in game. That's a crappy deal. Now if I could buy daily passes, or maybe buy playtime by the hour, then I would do that, but there isn't so Bioware gets nothing at all from me. Right now I'm limping by with preferred status and buying my unlocks with cash, but I still have limits on what I can do at end game. Once again, I'm forced to buy a weekly pass but I only have time for a single operation, it's too damn expensive for what I get out of it. Another option might be to have different levels of preferred player (bronze/silver/gold) that removes various road blocks that cannot be unlocked through the cartel market, the levels would be based on your cumulative CC purchases. For example, a silver might have the credit cap increased and the xp penalty reduced to 18%, a gold can have unlimited credits, xp penalty reduced to 10%, and have and have more access to flashpoints and operations a week, etc.

I would spend more money on this game if it had a more flexible subscription plan. I'm sure there are a lot of older players like myself who have the cash but don't have a lot of time to spare, so a $15 per month subscription plan has low value per dollar spent. For example, I might only get 3 hours a week play time, so $15 buys me 12 hrs in game. That's a crappy deal. Now if I could buy daily passes, or maybe buy playtime by the hour, then I would do that, but there isn't so Bioware gets nothing at all. Right now I'm limping by with preferred status and buying my unlocks with cash, but I still have limits on what I can do at end game. Once again, I'm forces to buy a weekly pass for a single operation that is only a mater of a few hours play time, it's too damn expensive for what I get out of it. I don't really buy the concept that the credit cap is there to stop gold farmers. They have plenty of ways to get credits passed around and are still very active with the limit in place. Preferred players still have a cap of 350,000 credits which means the majority of unlocks are beyond our reach. The cap is strictly there to force players to subscribe.

Prince George BC here. Are there any Canadian friendly PVE guilds around that could use a Commando Medic?